Yeah back then it was results oriented. Nazi rocket scientist? Willing to build us some rockets? OK you're in. Hence you actually got somewhere - like the moon for instance.
Now NASA is only good at doing reruns/remakes of the 1960s. Back then they already did missions to mars (and other planets), space station, etc.
In which case you are in effect giving the money to the treasury.
But this is why it is a big benefit to the USA that Saudi Arabia sells oil in USD, Japan, China etc sell stuff in USD and so on. This means hundreds of countries around the world will need to hold and keep US Dollars.
Then whenever the US Gov decides to print money, they get to instantly tax all those entities around the world who are holding those US dollars that just got cheaper.
So Japan and China sell stuff to the USA and get lots of US Dollars from the USA, and then they use those US dollars to buy lots of IOUs in USD from the US Gov, which then repumps the US dollars into the economy. Funny eh? But so far the "perpetual money machine" has been spinning for a lot longer than the previous "machines".
Of course the US dollars are now being pumped into Iraq, so the machine might stop spinning sooner.
Same goes if a lot of trades started using the Euro instead of the USD.
Sitting at a desk in the conventional positions (near upright), is not such a great idea if nearly all of your work is on the computer and not on a physical desk.
Very reclined with legs supported and raised would be better - less strain on the back etc.
Screen would need to be higher (I bet there's a reason why your eyes default to roll up so looking downwards past your nose a lot is probably a bad idea).
But Open Office sucks. I use it at work and at home.
Yesterday I was using OO Impress 2.3.x for the first time and it just wouldn't save a ppt properly - somehow it got the character sequences wrong when a line ended with ) . You get 00 29 00 0F 20, or something - the 0F seems to cause problems and appears as a ? in the PPT viewer. So I had to resort to hexediting the file and replacing all of those with with 00 29 00 20 00. I don't know why the OOO ppt exporter puts that 0F there. I added the trailing spaces in hope of getting things working or ignored and it somehow worked for one line. Maybe it's just that file, but I don't recall having such problems with older versions of OO Impress.
The older versions are really slow though and I've had other problems with them (e.g. bullets and numbering with the OO word processor).
The problem I see is it's not just that. You don't just need money to pay for the software you use, you need money to pay to keep track of it for X years and all the other associated crap. And some of those license thingies are kinda grey or complicated - per server, per client, concurrent clients, users (this could be vague), concurrent users, host, CPU (socketted), CPU core, MHz etc. Not just that, they can change from year to year. IIRC Windows XP Home was previously not for multiprocessor systems, but when multicore x86 CPUs came out, Microsoft said they meant socketed CPUs.
"The BSA considers software pirated if a company can't produce a receipt for it, no matter how long ago it was purchased. Software boxes or certificates of authenticity are no help, because the BSA argues the software could have been obtained from an illegitimate source."
Does that mean even if you have Windows XP and MS Office certs stuck on the PC with a 1:1 cert:install mapping it doesn't count? What idiocy is that? I know lots of businesses will have difficulty retaining receipts and records longer than a few years. Might be in a box somewhere but nobody left in the company will know about it.
Whether the PC was stolen or not, if the cert+ key is real Microsoft etc already have got paid for it.
It could even be a gift, believe me people do donate software. I'm sure many churches and charitable organisations get such stuff. You don't always get receipts for that.
Thing is the BSA might have a different agenda from the companies it represents.
I heard the Microsoft boss in my country handled piracy cases differently - he told off his staff who apparently were going around taking people to court etc. Basically his opinion was these people were happy users of Microsoft software, all his staff needed to do was to convince them to license. Which shouldn't be too hard - "Hi, would you like to pay the $$$$$ per infringing copy (plus bosses risk imprisonment) or $$$ per licensed copy?".;)
Instant sale. Don't even need to send them any fancy media or boxes. Don't even need to send people to help install and configure the software - they've already done all that work themselves.
Only send in the thugs if they refuse to license after you find out they are noncompliant.
Most people don't realize that one of the reasons why you need to be at the airport hours before you fly is so those guys can rummage through your stuff if they see anything interesting in the scanners.
If there's no time for them to pick through all the locks your luggage goes "missing" or gets "delayed".
The next time your bag gets delayed, go check to see if someone has opened it. Often you'll find that it has.
I just assume that people can steal stuff in my bags (or steal the entire bag) and will do so.
Unfortunately the stupid thing now is you can no longer hand carry a lot of stuff. That doesn't add any security at all in terms of "terrorism", and it reduces it by making it hard for you to keep your valuables safe.
People now have trouble carrying their expensive moisturizers and creams. I sympathize with them as the very dry air in the plane really does damage skin.
A lot of it is because people who watched the first Star Wars were younger than when they watched the subsequent ones. If you want to be scientific you can make kids who have never watched Star Wars before, watch the prequels first then only Ep 4 etc, and then the other way round, then repeat with adults and see what they think.
HOWEVER for Phantom Menace the actors looked like it was their first time going through a powerpoint presentation, rather than "forget the slides, let me tell you a story". Actors weren't totally in character - maybe some hadn't even "found" their character yet. Actors weren't totally "together" with each other, no rapport being built up - they were like strangers to each other in every scene even if some time was supposed to have passed. Ever drank a soup with an OK recipe but was "rushed"? That's what it was.
While Lucas might have ideas he's not the best with scripts. He needs other people to challenge his stuff and make it transcend itself.
After all: "Attack of the Clones"- "I truly, deeply, love you, and before we die I want you to know.". If that was in character, then she's really a cold fish;).
In contrast we have: Leia: "I love you" Han Solo: "I know".
Which practically everyone _knows_ the "real" Han Solo would say.
If I'm a robber/burglar and he's just a random target, I'd give up and go elsewhere. It means he knows you're there too AND he's got at least one gun. So what's so special about his stuff/place anyway?
Take a cue from wildlife - when predators hunt they want lunch, not battles. Even if you win the battle, he could still make a big hole in you and you don't want that - leads to lots of problems - blood on floor (more evidence), need medical treatment etc.
If it's targetted - personal or a "hit" then things could be different. But there are far better ways of taking out somebody then breaking into their home and fighting a gun battle there.
Yeah vibrate would be better. Vibrate still makes a noise though, but i suppose it's easier to muffle it - and if you hold it right the sound might not go as far.
Why? If you're something like Google, I bet you could just RMA the containers with faulty stuff back and get new/refurbished ones already configured to your specs - all you need is net boot them for automated install. AFAIK Google don't fix servers once they fail or even take them out of the rack, they just have someone go about once in a while to take em out (like "garbage collecting" instead of "malloc/free").
So for the big guys it'll be a bit like buying a prebuilt PC, only it's the size of a container.
The company obviously doesn't treat elections very seriously and should be smacked down.
An election doesn't just have to work right, it has to be SEEN to be working right - that is PART of the "deliverables". Otherwise people may rightfully get pissed off.
Say in an "old school voting system" you had a company in charge of transporting ballot boxes from the booths to the counting stations, and one of the trucks took a "minor detour" on the way, maybe for the convenience of the company or the employees (take a leak or buy a drink etc).
Sure, nobody might have tampered with the stuff, but the elections get "damaged".
How damaged who knows. The eventual losers could kick up a big fuss. You might piss off millions of voters.
The company obviously doesn't deserve to be in the election system business.
The USA spends so much money in Iraq on "regime change" AKA picking the leaders there, but when it comes to picking the leaders back home - "it's only a minor modification" or we'll let Diebold's rejects who wouldn't be able to make ATM machines build voting machines for us.
As for Britney, I don't see how she's significantly worse than the average person. It's not her that's going around taking pictures of other people's genitals or whatever AND publishing those pics without permission.
Doesn't make sense? Take off those rose-tinted glasses and read this.
http://www.negativland.com/albini.html
Written by Steve Albini.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Albini
There are articles by others on how it works which are similar.
Basically the band gets an "advance" on future earnings, and almost everything is paid for off that advance (recording studio, recording + mastering fees, you name it...), so often the band ends up _owing_ the record company money:).
Quote: "The band is now 1/4 of the way through its contract, has made the music industry more than 3 million dollars richer, but is in the hole $14,000 on royalties. The band members have each earned about 1/3 as much as they would working at a 7-11, but they got to ride in a tour bus for a month. The next album will be about the same, except that the record company will insist they spend more time and money on it. Since the previous one never "recouped," the band will have no leverage, and will oblige. The next tour will be about the same, except the merchandising advance will have already been paid, and the band, strangely enough, won't have earned any royalties from their T-shirts yet. Maybe the T-shirt guys have figured out how to count money like record company guys. Some of your friends are probably already this fucked."
Why do you think some bands don't care if their stuff gets copied, they've figured that the people doing the most hurt to them aren't the "evil downloaders".
FYI you can append stuff to a tinyurl and it will be appended to the final url.
This allows you to workaround naive sites that require you to submit a url that ends in a certain way.
For example a web forum might require your "avatar" url to end with.gif or.jpg or.png.
But you can always submit http://www.something.com/do/something?naughty=yes&ignoretherest= to tinyurl which then shortens it to: http://tinyurl.com/239x6h
Then you submit the following url to the target site:
http://tinyurl.com/239x6h/avatar.jpg
Which expands to: http://www.something.com/do/something?naughty =yes&ignoretherest=/avatar.jpg
This also works for a few other url shortening services. While this might be viewed as a bad thing, it can also be a useful feature.
tinyurl provides a preview feature, and allows you to set a cookie to remember the setting, I suggest people set that.
Reasonably sure it's not in the legacy or "compatible" mode. Motherboard = Asus p5kpl. Chipset Intel G31 (no video model) + ICH7.
XP pro from a nice yellow box that didn't come with the PC (got it from a friend who has one of those quotas of discounted/free Microsoft stuff).
I was surprised myself - I was indeed expecting it to NOT work and that I'd have to do some hoop jumping etc:).
Maybe I should make more copies of the CD, if I really have a "less fuss" version. I don't want to have to do all that crap if I ever have to reinstall.
98SE is not stable - get all those GDI resources crap.
Win2K would be a good choice - stable, and the main thing I don't like about Win2K over WinXP is it boots slower, but that's no longer a prob for a virtual machine - just pause it:).
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Yeah back then it was results oriented. Nazi rocket scientist? Willing to build us some rockets? OK you're in. Hence you actually got somewhere - like the moon for instance.
Now NASA is only good at doing reruns/remakes of the 1960s. Back then they already did missions to mars (and other planets), space station, etc.
Speaking of "vicious cycles" if your grandma didn't have kids, you're unlikely to have kids either :).
In which case you are in effect giving the money to the treasury.
But this is why it is a big benefit to the USA that Saudi Arabia sells oil in USD, Japan, China etc sell stuff in USD and so on. This means hundreds of countries around the world will need to hold and keep US Dollars.
Then whenever the US Gov decides to print money, they get to instantly tax all those entities around the world who are holding those US dollars that just got cheaper.
So Japan and China sell stuff to the USA and get lots of US Dollars from the USA, and then they use those US dollars to buy lots of IOUs in USD from the US Gov, which then repumps the US dollars into the economy. Funny eh? But so far the "perpetual money machine" has been spinning for a lot longer than the previous "machines".
Of course the US dollars are now being pumped into Iraq, so the machine might stop spinning sooner.
Same goes if a lot of trades started using the Euro instead of the USD.
Sitting at a desk in the conventional positions (near upright), is not such a great idea if nearly all of your work is on the computer and not on a physical desk.
Very reclined with legs supported and raised would be better - less strain on the back etc.
Screen would need to be higher (I bet there's a reason why your eyes default to roll up so looking downwards past your nose a lot is probably a bad idea).
But Open Office sucks. I use it at work and at home.
Yesterday I was using OO Impress 2.3.x for the first time and it just wouldn't save a ppt properly - somehow it got the character sequences wrong when a line ended with ) . You get 00 29 00 0F 20, or something - the 0F seems to cause problems and appears as a ? in the PPT viewer. So I had to resort to hexediting the file and replacing all of those with with 00 29 00 20 00. I don't know why the OOO ppt exporter puts that 0F there. I added the trailing spaces in hope of getting things working or ignored and it somehow worked for one line. Maybe it's just that file, but I don't recall having such problems with older versions of OO Impress.
The older versions are really slow though and I've had other problems with them (e.g. bullets and numbering with the OO word processor).
The problem I see is it's not just that. You don't just need money to pay for the software you use, you need money to pay to keep track of it for X years and all the other associated crap. And some of those license thingies are kinda grey or complicated - per server, per client, concurrent clients, users (this could be vague), concurrent users, host, CPU (socketted), CPU core, MHz etc. Not just that, they can change from year to year. IIRC Windows XP Home was previously not for multiprocessor systems, but when multicore x86 CPUs came out, Microsoft said they meant socketed CPUs.
;)
"The BSA considers software pirated if a company can't produce a receipt for it, no matter how long ago it was purchased. Software boxes or certificates of authenticity are no help, because the BSA argues the software could have been obtained from an illegitimate source."
Does that mean even if you have Windows XP and MS Office certs stuck on the PC with a 1:1 cert:install mapping it doesn't count? What idiocy is that? I know lots of businesses will have difficulty retaining receipts and records longer than a few years. Might be in a box somewhere but nobody left in the company will know about it.
Whether the PC was stolen or not, if the cert+ key is real Microsoft etc already have got paid for it.
It could even be a gift, believe me people do donate software. I'm sure many churches and charitable organisations get such stuff. You don't always get receipts for that.
Thing is the BSA might have a different agenda from the companies it represents.
I heard the Microsoft boss in my country handled piracy cases differently - he told off his staff who apparently were going around taking people to court etc. Basically his opinion was these people were happy users of Microsoft software, all his staff needed to do was to convince them to license. Which shouldn't be too hard - "Hi, would you like to pay the $$$$$ per infringing copy (plus bosses risk imprisonment) or $$$ per licensed copy?".
Instant sale. Don't even need to send them any fancy media or boxes. Don't even need to send people to help install and configure the software - they've already done all that work themselves.
Only send in the thugs if they refuse to license after you find out they are noncompliant.
Most people don't realize that one of the reasons why you need to be at the airport hours before you fly is so those guys can rummage through your stuff if they see anything interesting in the scanners.
If there's no time for them to pick through all the locks your luggage goes "missing" or gets "delayed".
The next time your bag gets delayed, go check to see if someone has opened it. Often you'll find that it has.
I just assume that people can steal stuff in my bags (or steal the entire bag) and will do so.
Unfortunately the stupid thing now is you can no longer hand carry a lot of stuff. That doesn't add any security at all in terms of "terrorism", and it reduces it by making it hard for you to keep your valuables safe.
People now have trouble carrying their expensive moisturizers and creams. I sympathize with them as the very dry air in the plane really does damage skin.
A lot of it is because people who watched the first Star Wars were younger than when they watched the subsequent ones. If you want to be scientific you can make kids who have never watched Star Wars before, watch the prequels first then only Ep 4 etc, and then the other way round, then repeat with adults and see what they think.
;).
HOWEVER for Phantom Menace the actors looked like it was their first time going through a powerpoint presentation, rather than "forget the slides, let me tell you a story". Actors weren't totally in character - maybe some hadn't even "found" their character yet. Actors weren't totally "together" with each other, no rapport being built up - they were like strangers to each other in every scene even if some time was supposed to have passed. Ever drank a soup with an OK recipe but was "rushed"? That's what it was.
While Lucas might have ideas he's not the best with scripts. He needs other people to challenge his stuff and make it transcend itself.
After all: "Attack of the Clones"- "I truly, deeply, love you, and before we die I want you to know.". If that was in character, then she's really a cold fish
In contrast we have:
Leia: "I love you"
Han Solo: "I know".
Which practically everyone _knows_ the "real" Han Solo would say.
'Tom was awarded $6 million for "misappropriation of personality"'
Yeah, one morning he woke up to find his personality gone and that's why he sued.
Maybe this band sued because the cover version was better than they'll ever be able to do, and they just couldn't accept that.
If I'm a robber/burglar and he's just a random target, I'd give up and go elsewhere. It means he knows you're there too AND he's got at least one gun. So what's so special about his stuff/place anyway?
Take a cue from wildlife - when predators hunt they want lunch, not battles. Even if you win the battle, he could still make a big hole in you and you don't want that - leads to lots of problems - blood on floor (more evidence), need medical treatment etc.
If it's targetted - personal or a "hit" then things could be different. But there are far better ways of taking out somebody then breaking into their home and fighting a gun battle there.
Yeah vibrate would be better. Vibrate still makes a noise though, but i suppose it's easier to muffle it - and if you hold it right the sound might not go as far.
"They poisoned the environment with life and justified further human ecoscaping"
Terrarism by the evil eco-terrarists!
"You need to be able to access all the equipment"
Why? If you're something like Google, I bet you could just RMA the containers with faulty stuff back and get new/refurbished ones already configured to your specs - all you need is net boot them for automated install. AFAIK Google don't fix servers once they fail or even take them out of the rack, they just have someone go about once in a while to take em out (like "garbage collecting" instead of "malloc/free").
So for the big guys it'll be a bit like buying a prebuilt PC, only it's the size of a container.
The company obviously doesn't treat elections very seriously and should be smacked down.
An election doesn't just have to work right, it has to be SEEN to be working right - that is PART of the "deliverables". Otherwise people may rightfully get pissed off.
Say in an "old school voting system" you had a company in charge of transporting ballot boxes from the booths to the counting stations, and one of the trucks took a "minor detour" on the way, maybe for the convenience of the company or the employees (take a leak or buy a drink etc).
Sure, nobody might have tampered with the stuff, but the elections get "damaged".
How damaged who knows. The eventual losers could kick up a big fuss. You might piss off millions of voters.
The company obviously doesn't deserve to be in the election system business.
The USA spends so much money in Iraq on "regime change" AKA picking the leaders there, but when it comes to picking the leaders back home - "it's only a minor modification" or we'll let Diebold's rejects who wouldn't be able to make ATM machines build voting machines for us.
"There's no coding around that, I think. Unless we deny users the right to use their computers... or educate them."
I claim there's a lot more that can be done:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/156693
It's not easy but it can be done.
In contrast expecting users to solve a version of the halting problem ("will running this program pwn my PC") is bad design and unreasonable.
Maybe he's a grammar specialist ;).
As for Britney, I don't see how she's significantly worse than the average person. It's not her that's going around taking pictures of other people's genitals or whatever AND publishing those pics without permission.
Doesn't make sense?
:).
Take off those rose-tinted glasses and read this.
http://www.negativland.com/albini.html
Written by Steve Albini.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Albini
There are articles by others on how it works which are similar.
Basically the band gets an "advance" on future earnings, and almost everything is paid for off that advance (recording studio, recording + mastering fees, you name it...), so often the band ends up _owing_ the record company money
Quote: "The band is now 1/4 of the way through its contract, has made the music industry more than 3 million dollars richer, but is in the hole $14,000 on royalties. The band members have each earned about 1/3 as much as they would working at a 7-11, but they got to ride in a tour bus for a month. The next album will be about the same, except that the record company will insist they spend more time and money on it. Since the previous one never "recouped," the band will have no leverage, and will oblige. The next tour will be about the same, except the merchandising advance will have already been paid, and the band, strangely enough, won't have earned any royalties from their T-shirts yet. Maybe the T-shirt guys have figured out how to count money like record company guys. Some of your friends are probably already this fucked."
Why do you think some bands don't care if their stuff gets copied, they've figured that the people doing the most hurt to them aren't the "evil downloaders".
"Challenge-response password protocols are completely worthless, and the sooner MS ditches them, the better off they'll be."
Tell that to the WiFi standards people. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Authentication_Protocol#PEAPv0.2FEAP-MSCHAPv2
Seems almost as if the WiFi people were bribed to make stuff that in practice will have crappy security (too difficult to secure).
If she didn't actually want to sue you or initiate the action, they should be sued for fraud etc.
:).
Basically they're getting money and misrepresenting it.
And your wife could sue them if she's actually still friendly with you and accuse them of trying to break up the marriage etc.
Get a good lawyer or something
I hope it continues becoming more and more obvious, getting tired of proposing it to people who don't find it obvious :)
e.g.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/156693
AFAIK it helps - go to: http://tinyurl.com/preview.php set the "preview enabled" cookie on your browser.
Now try to visit any tinyurl shortened link and you get the preview page being loaded instead, instead of the payload.
FYI you can append stuff to a tinyurl and it will be appended to the final url.
.gif or .jpg or .png.
This allows you to workaround naive sites that require you to submit a url that ends in a certain way.
For example a web forum might require your "avatar" url to end with
But you can always submit http://www.something.com/do/something?naughty=yes&ignoretherest= to tinyurl
which then shortens it to:
http://tinyurl.com/239x6h
Then you submit the following url to the target site:
http://tinyurl.com/239x6h/avatar.jpg
Which expands to:
http://www.something.com/do/something?naughty
=yes&ignoretherest=/avatar.jpg
This also works for a few other url shortening services. While this might be viewed as a bad thing, it can also be a useful feature.
tinyurl provides a preview feature, and allows you to set a cookie to remember the setting, I suggest people set that.
But many other url shortening services don't.
Reasonably sure it's not in the legacy or "compatible" mode. Motherboard = Asus p5kpl. Chipset Intel G31 (no video model) + ICH7.
:).
XP pro from a nice yellow box that didn't come with the PC (got it from a friend who has one of those quotas of discounted/free Microsoft stuff).
I was surprised myself - I was indeed expecting it to NOT work and that I'd have to do some hoop jumping etc
Maybe I should make more copies of the CD, if I really have a "less fuss" version. I don't want to have to do all that crap if I ever have to reinstall.
Protect the children from everything, then send them to Iraq to die.
:).
Sounds like a plan to me
98SE is not stable - get all those GDI resources crap.
:).
Win2K would be a good choice - stable, and the main thing I don't like about Win2K over WinXP is it boots slower, but that's no longer a prob for a virtual machine - just pause it